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Wednesday, September 21, 1C33
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Vol. 83 No. 17
Plan would keeio troops
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Frcn Ilcutcr News Report
WASHINGTON House Speaker
Thomas O'Neill Tuesday tentatively
approved a bipartisan compromise
agreement under which Congress would
authorize the White House to keep U.S.
Marines in Lebanon until early 1085.
An aide to Senate Majority Leader
Howard Baker, R-Tenn told reporters a
resolution embodying the accord had
been introduced in the Senate. "
President Reagan's Republican Party
controls the Senate, but the Demo
crats command a majority in the House.;
and approval from O'Neill, a Massa-V
chusetts Democrat, was considered
crucial to the agreement
Under the plan worked out by the
White House and congressional lead
ers, Reagan would formally disagree
with a legislative finding that the con
flict in Lebanon subjects the UJ5. troops
in the international peacekeeping force
there to the kind of imminent hostili
ties requiring congressional action un
der the 1973 War Powers Act
The act bars a president from keep
ing troops overseas longer than 60 or
00 days without a specific vote of Con
gress. O'Neill said in acceding to the com
promise allowing the Marines to stay
for 18 months from Aug. 23, the White
House also was tacitly acknowledging
that the War Powers Act must be
invoked. ...
Reagan has resisted invoking the
act, even after the recent deaths of
four Marines in the factional fighting
in Lebanon. - - :
He and previous presidents have
contended that the measure, passed
after the Vietnam War, infringes on
powers that properly belong to the
executive branch of the U.S. govern
ment This argument was bolstered by a
Supreme Court ruling last June strik
ing down the so-called legislative veto
by Congress of actions taken by the
Executive, although there is disagree
ment over how much of the War Pow
ers Act was affected.
: The aide to Sen. Baker said the com
promise would permit Reagan to say
that he still had reservations about the
constitutional standing of the War
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O'Neill said his backing was conting-
ent on concurrence by the House For
eign Affairs Committee, which met
Tuesday.
But since the accord is close to what
u- committee leaders suggested two weeks
ago, agreement there was expected.
O'Neill said there may be disagree
ment later in the full House over the
18-month time period.
It was chosen after administration .
officials argued that six months was
too short and would allow Syria, which
is backing Moslem forces in Lebanon,
to "wait out" the Americans. v
A year-long commitment was rejected
because it would farce a fresh ccrgres
sional debate on the issue in the mid
dle of the 1C34 presidential election
campaign.
Aides to O'Neill said the compro
mise agreement would require Rea
gan to obtain congressional approval if
he wanted to increase the number of
soldiers substantially beyond 1,200
the number of Marines now ashore in
Beirut
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Jan Dettcn (left), a junior accounting major, visits the ASUN table at the
Activity Mart in the Nebraska Union main lobby Tuesday. Mark Cross, a
graduate college senator, oversees the ASUN exhibit
Activity Mart successful
Questions, questions and more
questions. -
The Campus Activities and Pro
grams Office sponsored the sixth
annual Activity Mart Tuesday in the
Nebraska Union main lobby in an
attempt to provide answers to stu
dents' many questions about the
, university's many activities, Tom
Chochvek, co-coordinator of the pro-
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Forty organizations setup booths
at the mart and the CAP booth
attempted to answer students' ques
tions about organizations that were
represented in the exhibits. -
"Freshman are asking lots of good
questions "said Lynne Bertch, a senior
ASUN senatormajoring in pre-phar-macy
and math. "People look at the
Student Legal Services Handbook and
say,' Wow, this is really helpfuL' "
Chochvek said CAP stresses stu
dent involvement in extracurricu
lar university activities so students
can fully benefit from the educa
tional system.
"We feel the Activity Mart is fairly
successful," Chochvek said. "We have
, a good representation of campus
activities. Students are leaving with
information they may not have been
aware of before."
Chochvek, a graduate student in
education administration, was assis
ted by Gwen Meister, a graduate
student in community and regional
planning.
CAP East will sponsor Activity
Mart 83 on East Campus Sept 29.
The event will be in the Great Plains
Room of the East Union from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Neighborhood Watch: Community ,
wareneheilig tociecrease crime
WTiat would you do if a robber stuck a gun in your
ribs? To be safe, just about anything the robber
demanded, according to a film on safety shown to
more than 100 Lincoln residents at a Monday meet
ing of the Lincoln Neighborhood Watch Association
Inc.
Two members of the Lincoln Police Department
presented the film, which was called The National
Crime And Violence Test"
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" During the hour-long film, viewers were asked 28
questions about crime and violence.
The LPD will show the film to any organization or
group interested, said officer Mike Geidner, crime
prevention specialist for the police.
Rex Swanson, president of the city watch group,
said he flunked the film quiz and was surprised at
the amount he learned.
Among the film's safety tips were the following:
Always check locks on windows and doors, espe
cially at night
Always lock any vehicle when leaving it, if even for
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Dont walk outside at night unless someone is with
you. If you , muet, walk in lighted areas. . '
Never open the door uniebs you know who it is
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' Never aiirit repairmen until you see their identi-'.
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"One reason we started tha neighborhood watch
b because there were a 1st cf people in the neigh
borhood that juet diint know whet to do," Swanson
' said. "
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November 1C31 under the g iier.ce cf Meyer Helen
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